Minecraft 1.18 Pre-Release 6

The sixth pre-release for 1.18 is now available. This pre-releases squashes some more bugs. Additionally, we now save the game more often, similar how to you should remember to save backups more often.

Happy mining!

Changes in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• The numbers of features in cave biomes have been tweaked

Technical Changes in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• The game now saves chunks whenever there is time spare to reduce autosave spikes

Fixed Bugs in 1.18 Pre-release 6

• MC-236947 Signature attribute is stripped from java records
• MC-238930 Soul Sand and Soul Soil generate below the nether ceiling
• MC-238959 Falling block placing at Y=1 changes into dropped item when landing on Y=0
• MC-239880 Some chunks have missing blocks below 0
• MC-239900 Upgrading custom world to 21w43a ignores min_y and height
• MC-241263 Off-heap memory leak
• MC-241409 Game crashes when terrain shaper data is missing
• MC-241630 Temperatures don't properly get converted
• MC-241767 Breaking a vine or ladder block while the player is climbing it while sneaking allows the player to hover in place indefinetly
• MC-241820 Ocean Monuments upgraded from previous versions appears to have the bounding box shifted to chunk borders north and west
• MC-241830 Windswept savannas in amplified worlds have the incorrect surface blocks
• MC-241941 Nether bedrock roof can generate exposed
• MC-242016 Dripstone doesn't generate at high y values
• MC-242022 Game crashes when loading new chunks (Exception generating new chunk, caused by ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 268435455 out of bounds for length 32)
• MC-242479 Pointed dripstone makes holes in lava pools